DennisDennis Armistead wrote:I'm just a ol' country boy...not a physics major, but this is my own experience owning both. When you're on the line and two shooters are shooting...one a .45 and the other a .50, using the same gr. round, same powder capacity you can tell who's shooting the .50....Maybe someone on the board who shoots both can explain (better) the difference between recoil, torque of the .45 vs .50.BFD wrote:So, whats the physics of that? Is the .50-70 so much faster? I'm curious.
Dennis
Being new to the forum you probably have not read my 2008 post about recoil and the relative efficiency of different sharps calibers.
Given just the bullet weight and the bp charge weight, there will be a difference between recoil of different calibers, but can't compute (too many variables).
BUT, given the same bullet weight, velocity, powder charge and rifle weight, the recoil will be the same in a .22 cal as in a 4 bore!!!.
Caliber makes no difference, but people should realize that the contribution to recoil of any number of grains of black powder will contribute less than half that of smokeless powder. Forgetting to consider that is what makes BPCR shooters' claim to HUGE recoil just MACHO talk. Of course, 200 rounds with less than huge recoil can be a bother.